Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
TRADE NOTES

Rradsircet's says that 90, 900 men have
struck since January LIST, 1SS7.
l.. 4. 6,39i, Of st. Louis, Mo, has is
sued a union label for all kinds of cooper
a%e.
Some fifty assemblies of the Knights OF
Labor have been formed in Alabama inside
OF two months.
Brockton, Mass, is to form a Central
Labor Union. and will cover 4 radius OF
ten square miles.
Maryland gives employment to 81 $1,000
persons in canning fruit and oysters, the
estimate being 5000 cans annually.
All permits to manufacture and sell
official Knigts Of Labor goods have been
revoked by the General Executive Board.
Assemblies are organizing ut the rate of
$50 Il month, notwithstanding the reports
of rupture in the organized labor ranks.
''Non-swearing Knights" is the name OF
an organization started with the knights
of Labor at Chicago to discourage swearing.
The Knights of Labor ut Hudson, Wis,
made every poor widow in the city u pres
emit of a sack of flour during the holidays.
The Potters' Cooperative Co. of East
Liverpool, o., are. as usual, as busy aS
they can be, and orders are coming IN
beautifully to them.
The East Liverpool. o., white ware pot
teries are now all ut work, and it is a long
time since prospects looked better for so
early in the season.
L. A. 1881, X. of L., Of Baltimore, has
sued Ruth Il Son, tin n makers, Tor
damages to the amount $50, 600 for viola
ton of contract.
The Lorillard tobacco strike is settled.
The Knights get a five per cent increase
of wages, and women will no longer he re-
uuired to haul baskets.
The great lockout Of Knights Of Labor
clothing cutters and trimmers instituted
nv the wholesale clothing manufacturers
of Philadelphia began last Monday.
The Co-opefatiye Barrel Works AsSo,
citation has purchased four lots on Nle,
street. Milwaukee, on which they vii
erect their shop. The price of the land Is
81, 500.
The tailors and operatives of Boston art
Ia form a union, with its objects rs FOL
lows: Reduced hours of toll, increase o.
conversation. aud g establish n sick ant
death benefit society.
Over thirty families whose heads arr
/ Knights OF labor have left Chicago Tor
new cooperative town that has been eS
tabIished fifty miles from Memphis, Tenn.
| and called Tennessee City.
All contracts for convict labor in tn,
| Erie county, y. Y, penitentiary eXplre'
/ December 81, and new ones cannot b
made. The legislature viii be asked 4
permit the employment of half the convict
on the piece-price plan.
Central Labor Union, of Boston, Mass;
is bOyeotting the shoe nails. tacks, lati
nails, etc, OF the American Tack Co, o
| Fairhayen, Mass, because the company
employing Scab help in place of union mel
who are on strike.
An agreement has been made at Quincy
Ill, between the contractors and brick
LAYERS by which ten hours viii CONSTITUTE
a davis work next season, and price hXe'
at 81 % per day. Last season the day wa
nine hours and the wages $500, or 4 cent
an hour.
In the state convention of the Main
Knights of Labor, last month, resolution
were adopted for the exclusion and trial o
members who present themselves IN an IN
toxieated condition. 1t was also resolves
that dramshops should be boycotted.
1t is Just one hundred years since Shays
rebellionin Massachusetts. This outnreal
was directed against excessive salaries q
officials, extortionate taxes, the severity O
the laws for the collection of debts, ant
other legal bardships.
Perry K Co, stove founders of Albany
n. Y, who run with ''seabs," have close
negotiations for removing their entire plan
from New York to South Pittsburg, on tn
Tennessee river, just below Chattanooga
1t will employ from 500 to 1,5O0 men.
Alately-deyised brick kiln consists OF